Thought of the Day: The Failure of Post-9/11 Reforms

The Department of Homeland Security's growing pains are massive. The Senate report on the underpants fiasco is like a madlibs from
the 9/11 commission report -- only this time we actually have a DNI and
NCTC replacing the CIA and the FBI.

We have neither fully embraced nor fully rejected torture and
indefinite detention. In other words, when, as is inevitable, we get
hit again with an (actual) terrorist attack, we have nothing to show
for a decade of CT sturm und drang, no policy consensus to fall back
on.

What will we do?

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Marc Ambinder is a contributing editor at TheAtlantic. He is also a senior contributor at Defense One, a contributing editor at GQ, and a regular contributor at The Week.